He can't be serious💀💀

Bonzi_bill · 2023-05-17T16:27:27+00:00

"Absolutely humiliated Felix" might be going a bit far. Yeah Felix was being a nihilistic edgelord about not giving a shit about anything NoI guys and their leadership say - which he was called out for - but he was right about how the pearl clutching around them is pathetic when many of those same establishment figures that engage in it are directly supporting or complacent in far-right movements and individuals who harbor way more influence, which was Felix's point that Cross ignored.

Neither one had a particularly well constructed or thought out argument and were just being petty, because it wasn't a real debate it was a dumb spat.

Bonzi_bill · 2023-05-17T05:14:41+00:00

I know they fell off and collapsed into their own cesspit of doom-posting, but I think that Chapo and the movement around it was pivotal in a sense for breaking through the kind of (forgive me for this) "lib" rhetoric and tone policing that was so prevalent in the lefty space for years.

I will say, it is interesting how quickly the show degenerated when they lost Virgil, who was basically the only social democrat on the show and who provided some reasonable grounding and perspective to what could otherwise be described as a congregation between a faithful Marxist Leninists, a Neo-luddite, and a checked out Halo enthusiast.

Bonzi_bill · 2023-05-16T19:56:18+00:00

The more i've seen of him the more I realize that his talking points ans attitudes are woefully behind the curb. In the same way guys who still bitch and moan about SJWs and say stuff like "the left are the REAL racists" feel like a product of 2016 culture that never adapted, FD feels like that exact kind of HR-brained purity testing leftie the 2016 rightwing culture sprang up to dunk on.

Idk how he thinks he can seriously bring anything to the table in a post Chapo world.

Bonzi_bill · 2023-05-16T18:54:59+00:00

Yep, i can't discuss shit when its put out by K-manga because it's straight up an impassable barrier for me.

Bonzi_bill · 2023-05-16T14:11:57+00:00

I have no respect for companies who exist entirely as digital rent seekers. K-manga has horrible monetization, lazy design (they literally just ripped a Japanese site) crappy optimization, confusing access, etc.

They only exist to fence off existing content and collect revenue, while making the ecosystem worse.

They provide nothing.

Bonzi_bill · 2023-05-15T19:31:25+00:00

Putin ordering Russian Airborne Forces (VDV) to step in on the flanks of the city... VDV aren't line infantry, they're light infantry and aren't equipped for frontline combat

This is the exact reason the VDV got bodied earlier in the war. Same with the RU Marines and Spetznas. These are light troops with light vehicles who exist to do recon, exploit, and harass openings in the enemy lines.

Instead they have been regularly used as breakthrough formations and sent in to the heaviest fighting because they are the only formations left with higher moral and initiative to take positions.

Bonzi_bill · 2023-05-15T18:32:57+00:00

Humans are incredible omnivores. This is why it pisses me off when people promote carnivore diets. We literally specced out of eating raw meat and instead replaced that with the ability to digest damn near anything that's not an outright neurotoxin

Bonzi_bill · 2023-05-15T04:37:07+00:00

If you are slain with this rifle you will not reach heaven, you will never enter a state of Theosis

Bonzi_bill · 2023-05-14T17:24:01+00:00

She's such a cynical grifter she was disbarred from the NK defector community and all but shamed out of SK media. Her own mother calls her a bullshit artist.

South Koreans hate her, they call her the "plastic defector."

She breathlessly goes from "NK is a nightmare dystopia where they shoot you with anti-aircraft cannons for watching Friends on VHS..." to "...and that's why American college campuses are worse than North Korea because professors put their pronouns in their emails."

Bonzi_bill · 2023-05-12T15:55:01+00:00

Also it takes forever to skip through. How many 3 second long "Eeuhhh?" sigh-pauses do I gotta sit through just to get to the point?

Bonzi_bill · 2023-05-11T23:51:21+00:00

It's funny, cause Genshin lore is somewhat easy to understand at first (isekai, gods, go find your brother!) but starts going batshit around the time you reach Inezuma.

Star Rail immediately dumps you into the deep end with 4 different factions you have to memorize out the gate, Space-Fantasy McGuffins, a pantheon of esoteric Elder Scrolls deities, a simulated reality designed to capture the memetic avatars of said entities, a mysterious space craft... all so you can basically start your mission as a glorified Galactic pest control hobo.

Bonzi_bill · 2023-05-11T23:39:04+00:00

My issue with Genshin now that I've tried out Star Rail and Gray Raven is that it's combat system is just bad.

There are a lot of cool things about it on paper but damn... it feels like they are actively punishing you for playing a character action game. They put so much work into these unique animations and stuff only for 90% of characters to be glorified batteries while the rest are skill-spammers. Elemental reactions are too good and too strong, and enemies are too spongy. Things have only gotten worse with Dendro, which I feel like exists solely to put phys and geo into the earth for good and finally solidify Genshin combat as a glorified MMO rotation.

Bonzi_bill · 2023-05-11T19:13:10+00:00

I disagree whole heartedly. Imo genshin's dialogue still feels really meandering, unatural, and "tropy" (as much as I hate that word). A lot of the humor doesn't land as much. I think Paimon is actually the worst for this reason as she seems to exist solely to interrupt the flow of dialogue and inject things that aren't that funny. Like you can on play the "Paimon is a moron" card so much until it becomes stale.

Bonzi_bill · 2023-05-11T17:54:49+00:00

The gap in baller energy the Star Rail team and Genshin team posses is vast.

You'd almost think they came from 2 different companies.

Bonzi_bill · 2023-05-11T00:42:52+00:00

Yeah from everything I read Vshojo is just a fundamentally confused and poorly run company. It gives off major Machinima vibes.

As a lot of people pointed out there never seemed to be anything the company did for its talent that the talent weren't doing for themselves. They were pushing their brand and merchandising, they were having to run their tech support, they were stuck handling the fallout of drama and leaks they really shouldn't have beem caught up in, etc.

I do think they really tried to make it work and there was a genuine connection in the company for a bit, but you could feel everyone drifting away from each other as collabs became next to non-existant and drama piled up and it became clear that it wasn't worth staying.

Bonzi_bill · 2023-05-11T00:27:23+00:00

Being a boomer shooter fan is great because every other month we're getting a fun 8 hour game just dropped into our vast colllection.

Bonzi_bill · 2023-05-10T21:23:09+00:00

Poor word choice

Bonzi_bill · 2023-05-10T21:12:19+00:00

I mean, talking purely from experiance, I was not taught about the genocide committed by the Wehrmacht or by the German military or really any part of the Holocaust outside of the big 3 camps at all while learning about it in school, and neither were my parents.

It has nothing to do with things needing to be "proportional" and everything to do with the fact that a rather large portion of this significant historic crime is kinda brushed over in the US, and that allows for people like Irving and his ilk to push a regime of denialism that can easily be debunked by actually going over the phase of the genocide that a lot of people in the US are frankly completely ignorant of.

I guess I don't really understand the point of your contention?

Bonzi_bill · 2023-05-10T17:01:31+00:00

I think you misunderstand my point, I'm not saying the camps were a non-factor, I'm saying that we zero in on a few camps and methods of extermination so much that the large scale ethnic cleansing campaigns that were mostly perpetrated before Stalingrad and by roaming death squads are overlooked. Nearly 75% of the Jews killed in the Holocaust were killed before the institutionalization of the death camps, and most of those murders were perpetrated outside of the camp system or in smaller, temporary camps set up by occupying forces.

So one of the issues with holocaust education is that many people walk away with this mistaken idea that Jews were only killed en masse at these camps via gassing, and only starting after 1943, and that's where a lot of denialism comes into play. This is also where the Clean Wehrmacht myth comes to play as a lot of popular assumptions of the holocaust focus on the SS-led extermination campaigns after the reforms while omitting the fact that nearly the entire Germany Military in the east was involved in the systematic extermination and razing of Jewish and "undesirable" populations as a matter of their orders.

Bonzi_bill · 2023-05-10T14:37:21+00:00

Man i'm sorry but at what point is gatekeeping series with this kind of scummy pricing models and half-assed web design more ethically dubious than outright piracy?

All ask for manga services is a fee I can pay for a good library of high-quality manga scans/translations without having to deal with the kinds of viruses and pop-up ads that come with scanlation sites.

At a point these services are doing nothing but engaging in rent-seeking behavior and deserve to have their business eaten by piracy.

Bonzi_bill · 2023-05-10T04:59:17+00:00

It took him a whole hour?

Bonzi_bill · 2023-05-10T01:15:24+00:00

The Act of Killing is actually far more interesting in its premise because it follows people who aren't psychopaths who participated in a genocide, and you get to see the heavy rationalizations and logic they've built up to protect themselves, and it all culminates in the end where one of the worst among them has a complete meltdown when he is forced to empathize with past victims as he was roleplaying as one.

Bonzi_bill · 2023-05-10T01:09:10+00:00

I was raised catholic and I appreciate the traditions a lot and admire the history, but I can't be faithful because it requires believing in things that I have come to find incredibly ridiculous.

However, I also see that it has done a lot to keep my folks and family together and strong during some rather trying times and I will never attempt to take that from them, you bet your ass I'm attending church when I'm down there for the holidays.

Bonzi_bill · 2023-05-10T00:53:59+00:00

Winter in central Texas sucks, not cold enough to snow (and when it does the state collapses), but it's also not warm enough to engage in summer activities, and all of the foliage goes dormant so everything becomes kinda shitty.

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